Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is t…

Was the Queen dead gutted about John being turned to stone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut, turn · To what, where: Queen, John, stone

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 116 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is turned to stone, then brought back to life with blood; three princes set out for the water of life» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Queen	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Queen	acl:relcl
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dead	acl
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gutted	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Queen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the Queen		tree rules
2	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	turn	gerund · passive	John	stone	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was properly gutted and kept thinking about him in church, so she went quiet for days

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 gutted	advmod
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gutted	conj
9	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thinking	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 church	case
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	conj
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 went	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 days	case
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she			properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	keep	participle						tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund			church		about him = he	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic
4	go	past	she			day	quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she was happy because John had been a bit of a pain and she never liked him anyway, to be honest

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 bit	mark
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bit	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 bit	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pain	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pain	det
14	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 liked	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 liked	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 liked	advmod
18	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 liked	obj
20	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	18 liked	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 honest	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	24 honest	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 honest	cop
24	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		happy property	tree rules
2	is a	past · perfect	John	a bit	of a pain	tree rules
3	not like	past	John	him = he	anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	she not said here		honest property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she was well chuffed, actually

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	advmod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 chuffed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		she				actually, well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was properly sad and felt bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 felt	cc
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	conj
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					properly, sad property	tree rules
2	feel	past	she not said here					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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